FILM fans are in for an exciting start to the new year, with adventure flick The Spirit, starring Gabriel Macht as a hero born, murdered and born again.

Also showing is Bedtime Stories, a magical family comedy about a man whose imaginative bedtime stories begin to come to life and Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey, the amazing tale of what happens when one man decides to say yes ... to everything.

The Spirit (12A)

Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond the grave as the Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces of Central City. The evil Octopus has other plans: Namely wiping out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this heartless killer from the city’s rundown warehouses to the windswept waterfront, all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.

Running time: 2hrs

Yes Man (12A) New release

Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, the man who always says ‘no’. No to invitations, no to opportunities, in fact life for Carl is going nowhere. Fed up of being stuck in a rut, he sets himself the challenge of saying nothing but ‘yes’ for an entire year. Can one word really change everything?

Running time: 2hrs

Bedtime Stories (PG) New release

A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true. Starring Adam Sandler, Keri Russell and Russell Brand.

Running time: 2hrs

Twilight (12A)

Bella Swan, a clumsy, kind- hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble, meets Edward Cullen, an intelligent, handsome vampire who is trying to hide his secret. Against all odds, the two fall in love, but will a pack of bloodthirsty trackers and their disapproving family and friends tear them apart?

Running time: 2hr 30

Australia (12A)

In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a sprawling cattle ranch. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces first hand.

Running time: 3hr 10

The Tale of Despereaux (U)

The charming animated tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who plots to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears. Their adventure begins when their fates become intertwined with that of the castle’s princess ...

Running time: 1hr 50

The Day The Earth Stood Still (12A)

Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly star in this remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart, who visit planet Earth.

Running time: 2hr 5

Inkheart (PG)

A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent - to bring characters out of She must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook’s hero.

Running time: 2hr 5

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG)

In the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2005 animated hit Madagascar, New York Zoo animals Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo land in the wilderness of Africa, where Alex meets the rest of his family, but has trouble communicating with them after spending so much time at the Central Park Zoo.